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ISSUE BRIEF GENERAL ELECTRIC’S PLANT PROFITEERING Despite calling itself a leader in decarbonization, GE is, in fact, doubling down on the dirty of the past by profiteering from the construction of at least a dozen new coal plants around the world and actively lobbying governments to expand the use of coal. These coal plants will lock in decades of fossil fuel dependence and dangerous health and climate impacts—including premature deaths from coal plant pollution. The IPCC report on 1.5°C requires a 70 percent reduction in global coal generation by 2030 and a complete coal phase- out by 2050—making GE’s fossil expansion completely incompatible with climate needs. GE should immediately end its involvement in new coal projects and position itself to benefit from the energy transition by growing its portfolio in clean energy technology, such as wind turbines and battery storage. GE’s involvement in coal includes projects that would be permanently unprofitable without subsidies, involve a Russian partner subject to U.S. sanctions, violate E.U. pollution control standards or aid rules, are suspected of filing false environmental impact assessments, or are stalled for years due to legal challenges in court. GE should cancel its involvement in these projects, beginning with the ones in Kenya, , Bosnia, and Vietnam.

As world leaders prepare to convene for the U.N. Climate world with a total capacity of more than 12,000 megawatts Action Summit in September, expectations are high for (MW) (Table 1). Many of these plants are expected to be global leaders to ramp up their ambition on climate change. so polluting or uneconomical that they could not be built Governments, civil society organizations, and the private in the United States. Instead, GE is trying to promote its sector are being asked to step up their commitments to outdated technology abroad. The construction of these achieve a global transition from fossil fuels to a more coal plants will lock in decades of fossil fuel dependence energy-efficient world, powered by . This and dangerous health and climate impacts in areas already energy transformation will require not only policy direction highly vulnerable to climate change. from governments but also innovation by private companies. Four particularly alarming projects involving GE are One major company, the U.S.-based giant General Electric currently under consideration by developers, regulators, 1 (GE), plays an outsize role in global energy infrastructure. and financiers: But so far, GE’s actions threaten to hurt climate progress more than they help. n the first-ever coal plant in East Africa, to be located next to a UNESCO World Heritage site in Lamu, Kenya Despite calling itself a leader in “the future of energy” through decarbonization and touting the performance n a coal plant in Kosovo from which the World Bank of its wind turbines, GE is, in fact, doubling down on the withdrew its financing after determining that renewable dirty energy of the past.2 Even now, GE is helping to build energy would be more affordable or plan more than a dozen new coal plants around the

AUTHORS: www.nrdc.org Han Chen www.facebook.com/nrdc.org Claire Wang www.twitter.com/NRDC n a coal plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina that does not recently opened a new offshore wind turbine factory and comply with finance standards and development center in China.13 GE’s CEO expects renewable violates the union’s pollution control rules power to be the fastest-growing business for the company in n a coal plant in Vietnam that has been delayed following 2019.14 the imposition of U.S. sanctions on a Russian project Despite acknowledging its bad fossil investment decisions contractor in the past, GE is continuing to finance coal abroad while GE should immediately end its involvement in these projects keeping the largest share of its renewables investments in and investments in all new coal projects. GE should instead the United States.15 Not only is GE making itself vulnerable position itself to benefit from the energy transition by to further financial losses, it is also endangering the growing its portfolio in clean energy technology, such economic health of countries hosting the coal projects. as wind turbines and battery storage, which are far less Thanks to its status as a well-known U.S. company, GE’s financially risky. involvement in fossil projects can make it easier for these risky coal plants to receive financing to be built. In some places, such as South Africa, GE is even actively lobbying GE’S BAD BETS ON FOSSIL FUELS WILL NOT PAY OFF governments to expand the use of coal.16 In July 2019, GE claims that its involvement in coal is beneficial because GE announced plans to build a coal plant in Mozambique, its coal plant technology is “cleaner” than that of other though the deal is at an early stage and GE can exit the deal 3 power suppliers. But this technology, even though at any time.17 newer, still generates significant pollution and carbon emissions.4 According to the Intergovernmental Panel on By contrast, GE announced in June 2019 that it would Climate Change’s landmark report on achieving the Paris demolish a gas-fired power plant in California after only 18 Agreement’s emissions-reduction targets, limiting global one-third of its useful life because it was uneconomic. warming to 1.5°C requires a 70 percent reduction in global Wind and solar generation in California have become far coal generation by 2030 and a complete coal phase-out by more cost-competitive solutions. GE’s turbine technology— 2050.5 This means not only that the existing stock of coal hailed as state-of-the-art a decade ago—could not operate plants must be gradually taken offline, but also that no new with the fast start-up times needed to come online when coal plants should be built. The average life span of a coal there is less wind and solar generation (which are lower- 19 plant is 40 to 50 years, so new plants would exceed the 2050 cost power sources). GE’s gas plant took hours to start, deadline.6 which should be a red flag against building coal plants, which are much slower to start up than most gas plants. GE’s own official statement on climate change claims that Thus, coal plants are not well-designed for a decarbonizing the company is “uniquely positioned” to achieve the Paris world that is projected to rely more and more on renewable targets and “enable the ultimate transformation to a carbon- energy projects in the future.20 The GE gas plant site was 7 free energy economy.” Yet the same document advocates sold to a battery storage developer. for energy approaches that are decidedly not carbon-free, including building new coal and gas power plants. New research this summer found that all currently existing fossil THE DANGERS AND BAD ECONOMICS OF COAL PLANTS fuel infrastructure, if operated as usual, would emit enough The threats that coal plants pose to economic stability and carbon to put the 1.5 °C Paris goal out of reach—making public health are well documented, and GE’s coal plants GE’s fossil expansion completely incompatible with climate are no different.21 Many of these projects involving GE have needs.8 GE’s own reports have for years warned of the risks highly questionable payoffs and major social harms. For of climate inaction, and after the United States announced example, the Punta Catalina plant under construction in its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, GE’s then-CEO, the Dominican Republic was linked to a $131 million (USD) Jeff Immelt, tweeted that “industry must now lead” on corruption scandal by construction company Odebrecht.22 climate change.9 GE’s two plants in Vietnam, Long Phu 1 and Vung Ang 2, were approved despite insufficient or incomplete G.E. has been burned by its own fossil investments environmental and social impact assessments that before. Between 2016 and 2018, the company lost $193 underestimated pollution or failed to consult communities billion—74 percent of its market value—in part due to its affected by the projects.23 The Ostroleka C plant in Poland overinvestment in fossil energy.10 GE made a disastrous play will be powered by lignite, the most polluting form of and did not properly calculate that demand for coal and gas coal.24 It has a projected net present value of negative €1.7 turbines worldwide would plummet. GE is certainly aware billion ($1.9 billion USD), meaning it will be “permanently of its mistake; its 2018 annual report lamented its losses unprofitable,” as one analysis put it, and that Polish in its coal and gas operations and pointed to “increasing taxpayers are subsidizing an expensive power plant that energy efficiency and renewable energy penetration” as should not have been built.25 a reason for its terrible returns on the fossil fuels side.11 Indeed, in 2018, while GE’s coal and gas division revenues Although some of GE’s coal projects have already begun shrank by 22 percent, its revenue from renewables construction, there is still time for the company to end its (mostly wind) grew by 4 percent.12 GE has been promoting involvement. We now discuss particularly notable projects its wind turbines as a “cutting-edge” technology, and it that GE’s board should reject immediately.

Page 2 GENERAL ELECTRIC’S COAL PLANT PROFITEERING NRDC TABLE 1: COAL PLANTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, PLANNED, OR DELAYED THAT WILL USE GE EQUIPMENT COUNTRY PLANT MW STATUS Bosnia Tuzla 726 450 Planned Bangladesh Mawa 127 660 Delayed Cambodia Sihanoukville Stung Hav 328 150 Under construction (completion 2019) Dominican Republic Punta Catalina29 770 Under construction (completion unknown) Kenya Lamu30 1,050 Delayed Kosovo Kosovo e Re31 500 Planned Mozambique Ncondezi Tete32 300 Planned Pakistan CPHGC33 1,320 Under construction (completion 2019) Pakistan Port Qasim Lucky 134 660 Under construction (completion 2021) Philippines Concepcion35 270 Under construction (completion 2019) Phillipines Masinloc36 300 Under construction (completion 2019) Poland Ostroleka C37 1,000 Under construction (completion 2023) South Africa Khanyisa38 306 Planned UAE Hassyan39 2,400 Under construction (completion 2020–2023) Vietnam Long Phu 140 1,200 Delayed Vietnam Vung Ang 241 1,200 Planned TOTAL MW 12,486 © Ben Curtis/AP GE’S BOARD SHOULD REJECT ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THE COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT PLANNED IN LAMU, KENYA The proposed coal power plant in Lamu, Kenya, would be the country’s first such plant.42 The 1,050-MW facility would be located next to Lamu Old Town, the oldest continuous Swahili settlement in East Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.43 In June 2019, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee called on the government of Kenya to avoid proceeding with the project given that proper impact assessments have not been conducted.44 If built, the Lamu plant would be one of the biggest carbon emitters on the African continent and would double the carbon emissions from Kenya’s energy sector.45 An analysis by Greenpeace estimated that emissions of particulate Crowds march through downtown Nairobi on June 5, 2018, to protest a proposed matter and nitrogen oxides will cause 1,600 premature plan to mine coal and open a coal-fired power plant north of Lamu, Kenya. deaths over the 40-year life span of the plant.46 In addition to these environmental and social harms, the underutilized.”48 This excess of power supply—as well as Lamu plant would come with significant economic risks. project developers’ unrealistic assumption that coal for the According to Kenya’s Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), plant will cost half as much as it currently does—means that power plant construction in the country is veering toward Kenyan consumers are likely to be saddled with a $2 billion a severe oversupply of , which could cause power plant that is too expensive to run and is not economically prices to increase by 70 percent over the next six years viable.49 as the government would need to raise revenue to sustain Even worse, under the current power purchase agreement idle plants.47 Kenya’s 2018 Updated Least Cost Power for Lamu, if GE decides to proceed with the proposed equity Development Plan says that the Lamu plant is expected investment in the project, the company would be part of to operate at 0.9 percent capacity if energy demand an exploitative deal that forces Kenyan consumers to pay growth is moderate, meaning that Lamu would be “grossly upwards of $360 million per year in “capacity payments.”50

Page 3 GENERAL ELECTRIC’S COAL PLANT PROFITEERING NRDC © Save Lamu standards for international finance.56 “OPIC cannot provide a final commitment to a project until its environmental assessment is complete and a determination is made by OPIC that the environmental, health, and safety impacts of the project are acceptable,” the letter said. “This has to be made available to the public of the United States, locally affected groups in the host country, and host country nongovernmental organizations.” Further, the letter continued, “the Government has so lavishly subsidized this project that it contravenes Kosovo’s legal obligation to maintain competitive energy markets under the Energy Community Treaty. As a result, it contravenes OPIC’s requirement that projects adhere to host country laws.” In addition to expanding the use of dirty lignite, the plant would increase the price of electricity for consumers and Local community protesters march against a proposed plan to mine coal and open would cost far more than the project developer’s estimates. a coal-fired power plant north of Lamu, Kenya, June 2019. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis found that Kosovo e Re would increase overall electricity This means that regardless of whether the plant ever prices by as much as 50 percent and that the full cost of the generates a kilowatt of electricity, Kenyans will pay. Local plant when financing and subsidies are included would total communities have engaged a years-long campaign opposing at least €4.17 billion ($4.67 billion USD), more than four the plant, with mobilizations including Nairobi’s first-ever times the amount cited by the project’s developers.57 Given anti-coal demonstration last June and a march this June. that the project has stalled for nearly a decade, GE should Fleecing the people of Kenya by building a coal plant that cancel any contracts that plan on reviving this controversial will barely operate and that local communities oppose is not and economically unsound project. the way a U.S. firm should be doing business abroad. In June 2019, in the face of these risks and after years GE MUST CEASE INVOLVEMENT IN THE TUZLA 7 COAL-FIRED of activist pressure, local opposition, and litigation, Kenya’s National Environmental Tribunal revoked Amu IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Unit 7 of the Tuzla coal-fired power plant in Bosnia is a Power’s environmental impact assessment license for planned 450-MW expansion of the existing lignite-burning the Lamu coal plant and ruled that a new environmental plant.58 The technology proposed for the plant fails to meet impact assessment would be required for the project to the recently updated EU pollution control standards and be reconsidered for license.51 Despite the economic and a questionable permitting process has resulted in several reputational risks, however, GE continues to pursue a 20 ongoing court challenges.59 Tuzla 7’s original environmental percent equity share in the plant in exchange for being permit expired in 2015, and the reissued permit is being selected to supply the plant turbine and boiler.52 Given that disputed in court due to environmental oversights by the the GE board has not approved this transaction, now is the developers, such as failure to address disposal of coal ash in time to make the right decision and reject any involvement the proposal.60 this project. Since 2016, local communities have protested the planned waste disposal and landfill site.61 The country’s ombudsman GE MUST CEASE INVOLVEMENT IN THE KOSOVO rejected the proposed site in June of this year, citing its e Re COAL PROJECT dangerous health impacts.62 The 500 MW Kosovo e Re coal plant would be the first major energy project in the country in more than two decades.53 Additionally, although the project developer claims that Last October, the World Bank pulled its funding from the planned closures of other Tuzla units would offset new project due to the poor economic rationale for the plant. emissions from Tuzla 7, the size of the new Tuzla unit Jim Kim, the World Bank president at the time, stated, would in fact exceed that of the retired coal units, leading “We are required by our bylaws to go with the lowest-cost to a net increase in coal combustion, especially since 63 option, and renewables have now come below the cost of the existing coal units will not be retired immediately. coal. So without question, we are not going to [support the Local communities have rejected the assertion by a U.S. Kosovo plant].”54 However, as of this past May, GE intended government representative in Bosnia that air and soil 64 to revive the dead project since it had won the contracts for pollution will be reduced by constructing a new unit. construction and equipment.55 According to a recent study, the new unit would “perpetuate the need for coal from open-cast mines, leaving behind The U.S. government agency OPIC (Overseas Private mountains of dusty spoil-heaps. The new unit would also Investment Corporation) is considering subsidizing the continue to produce large quantities of ash, whose disposal plant, although Kosovar groups pointed out in an open letter plays a critical role in aggravating local due to in June 2019 that such involvement likely violates U.S. blowing around in windy weather.”65

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The coal-fired Tuzla Thermal Power Plant in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Local demonstration against fossil fuel investment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Global Divestment Day, 2015.

The plant is also unlikely to be able to compete with low and may have been an attempt by the developers to evade electricity prices on the European market. In fact, the OECD coal plant financing restrictions by falsely claiming former and current directors of the company developing the plant would use a technology it does not actually plan Tuzla 7 admitted that the plant is currently economically to use.74 If GE has not already canceled its contract for unfeasible.66 this project, it should do so immediately and update the The Bosnia and Herzegovina federation government plans to information on its website. guarantee a loan from the China Exim Bank for the project. According to the Energy Community (the EU energy body), TIME FOR GENERAL ELECTRIC TO END ITS PROFITEERING this will not be compliant with EU rules on state aid. The FROM COAL Energy Community Secretariat has launched a dispute GE’s involvement in coal projects will lock in carbon 67 settlement process that will continue to delay the project. emissions, local pollution, and economic harms across the GE should exit this project immediately. globe at a time when clean, affordable energy solutions abound. GE should cease its involvement in new coal power GE CAN LEARN FROM THE LONG PHU 1 MESS AND EXIT plants, instead focusing on building up a workforce for zero- OTHER PROJECTS carbon technologies in alignment with the Paris Agreement Construction on the 1,200-MW Long Phu 1 plant in Vietnam on climate change. It should begin by canceling involvement began in 2015 despite local community opposition to the in the proposed projects in Kenya, Kosovo, Bosnia, and project, and as of June 2018 the plant was partially built.68 Vietnam. This transition will not only benefit the climate However, progress has been halted, and the United States but also help avoid additional financial and reputational has imposed sanctions on a Russian contractor working on losses that could be even worse than what GE has already the plant.69 Long Phu was the subject of a lengthy New York incurred by betting big—and wrong—on fossil fuels. When Times exposé on controversies surrounding the project.70 world leaders, major companies, and activists from around After the sanctions were announced, GE reportedly the world gather in New York for the Climate Summit in canceled its contract to provide the turbines and generator, September, GE should put forward a new plan for leading although its website still lists Long Phu as an example of a decarbonized future, not peddle outdated technology to “environmentally friendly” power generation.71 countries that deserve better, and truly cleaner, solutions. The Long Phu project has met with significant local backlash due to concerns over air pollution, water contamination, and climate impacts.72 Analysis by Friends of the Earth found that project developers’ estimates of the plant’s carbon emissions assumed efficiency levels that are technologically infeasible, leading to a severe underestimate of the carbon footprint of the project.73 The estimates were “unexplained and unsupported,” according to the analysis,

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Page 6 GENERAL ELECTRIC’S COAL PLANT PROFITEERING NRDC 30 David Herbling, “Kenya Cancels Environment License of $2 Billion Coal-Power Plant,” Bloomberg, June 26, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2019-06-26/kenya-cancels-environment-license-of-2-billion-coal-power-plant. 31 Fatos Bytyci, “GE to Build Kosovo’s New 500 MW Coal Power Plant,” Reuters, May 3, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-contourglobal-kosovo-ge/ge-to- build-kosovos-new-500-mw-coal-power-plant-idUSKCN1S917R. 32 “Ncondezi Energy Gets CMEC, GE as Co-developers.” 33 General Electric, “GE Helps CPHGC In Pakistan Achieve Major Power Plant Milestone Three Months Early,” GE Reports, March 27, 2019, https://www. genewsroom.com/press-releases/ge-helps-cphgc-pakistan-achieve-major-power-plant-milestone-three-months-early. 34 General Electric, “GE & SEPCOIII to Build Pakistan’s First Ultra-Supercritical Power Plant,” GE Reports, July 4, 2018, https://www.genewsroom.com/press- releases/ge-sepcoiii-build-pakistans-first-ultra-supercritical-power-plant. 35 General Electric, “GE in the Philippines,” September 20, 2017, https://www.ge.com/ph/sites/www.ge.com.ph/files/Fact%20Sheet%20PH%20Sep%202017.pdf. 36 Ibid. 37 Agnieszka Barteczko, “GE Power, Alstom to Build Poland’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plant,” Reuters, April 5, 2018, https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-energa- ostroleka/ge-power-alstom-to-build-polands-last-coal-fired-power-plant-idUKKCN1HC1F7. 38 ACWA Power Khanyisa Thermal Power Station (RF) (Pty) Ltd, "Generation License Public Hearing," March 27, 2018. 39 General Electric, “Hassyan,” https://www.ge.com/power/case-studies/hassyan (accessed July 25, 2019). 40 General Electric, “GE Power in Vietnam,” https://www.ge.com/vn/b2b/power (accessed July 25, 2019). 41 Market Forces, “Vung Ang 2,” March 29, 2019, https://www.marketforces.org.au/research/vietnam/vung-ang-2/. 42 Nicole Ghio, “In Kenya, Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant Threatens World Heritage Site,” Huffington Post, December 6, 2017, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/in- kenya-proposed-coal-fi_b_8056608?_guc_consent_skip=1564153854. 43 UNESCO, “Lamu Old Town,” http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1055/ (accessed July 25, 2019). 44 DeCOALonize, “UNESCO Calls for Halting of Proposed Lamu Coal Plant,” July 9, 2019, https://naturaljustice.org/unesco-calls-for-halting-of-proposed-lamu-coal- plant/. 45 BankTrack, “Lamu Coal Power Project,” June 27, 2019, https://www.banktrack.org/project/lamu_coal_power_project. 46 Lauri Myllyvirta and Clifford Chuwah,Assessing the Air Quality, Toxic and Health Impacts of the Lamu Coal-Fired Power Plants, Greenpeace Research Laboratories, June 2017, http://www.greenpeace.to/greenpeace/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/GRL-TR-06-2017-Lamu.pdf 47 Macharla Kamau, “Oversupply May Spike Your Power Bill by 70pc,” Standard Digital, September 26, 2018, https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/ article/2001296841/oversupply-may-spike-your-power-bill-by-70pc. 48 Republic of Kenya, Updated Least Cost Power Development Plan, Study Period: 2017–2037, June 2018, http://gak.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Updated- Least-Cost-Power-Development-Plan-2017-2022-min.pdf] 49 David Schlissel, The Proposed Lamu Coal Plant: The Wrong Choice for Kenya, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, June 2019, http://ieefa.org/ wp-content/uploads/2019/05/The-Proposed-Lamu-Coal-Project_June-2019.pdf. 50 Ibid. 51 Abiud Ochieng, “Tribunal Cancels Lamu Coal Power Project License,” Daily Nation, June 27, 2019, https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Lamu-coal-plant-in- limbo/1056-5172496-n50sk6z/index.html. 52 DeCOALonize Kenya, “General Electric (GE) Status with Lamu Coal Plant,” Medium post, March 29, 2019, https://medium.com/@deCOALonize/general-electric- ge-status-with-lamu-coal-plant-c77565dec2ba. Richard Lockhart, “GE to Acquire 20% Stake in Kenya’s Lamu Project,” Newsbase, May 23, 2018, https://newsbase.com/ topstories/ge-acquire-20-stake-kenya%E2%80%99s-lamu-project. 53 Maja Zuvela and Fatos Bytyci, “World Bank Pulls Out of Kosovo Coal Power Plant Project,” Reuters, October 10, 2018, https://uk.reuters.com/article/worldbank- kosovo/world-bank-pulls-out-of-kosovo-coal-power-plant-project-idUKL8N1WQ518. 54 Ibid. 55 Bytyci, “GE to Build Kosovo’s New 500 MW Coal Power Plant.” 56 Eve-anne Travers, “Foreign Financing for Kosova e Re Unlawful, Says KOSID,” Prishtina Insight, June 27, 2019, https://prishtinainsight.com/foreign-financing- for-kosova-e-re-unlawful-says-kosid/. 57 Ton Sanzillo and David Schlissel, The Proposed New Kosovo Power Plant: An Unnecessary Burden at an Unreasonable Price, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, January 2016, http://ieefa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The-Proposed-New-Kosovo-Power-Plant_-Jan-2016.pdf. 58 Wawa Wang, “The Belt and Road Initiative: How Chinese Coal Technologies Export to and the World Undermines Global Climate Goals,” Sustainable Energy, April 12, 2019, https://ve.dk/the-belt-and-road-initiative-how-chinese-coal-technologies-export-to-europe-and-the-world-undermines-global-climate-goals/. 59 Bankwatch Network, “Tuzla 7 Lignite Power Plant, Bosnia and Herzegovina,” https://bankwatch.org/project/tuzla-7-lignite-power-plant-bosnia-and-herzegovina-2 (accessed July 25, 2019). 60 Ibid. 61 China CEE Institute, “Bosnia-Herzegovina Economy Briefing: Tuzla Thermal Plant, Unit 7—Standing Issues,” May 3, 2019,https://china-cee.eu/2019/05/03/ bosnia-herzegovina-economy-briefing-tuzla-thermal-plant-unit-7-standing-issues/. 62 Institution of Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina, “To Exclude Any Possibility That in the Area of the Local Community of Šitićki Brod Tuzla, a Land Above the Kop Lake, a Landfill for the Deposit of Slag and Ash from the Tuzla Thermal Power Plant Is Being Formed,” June 3, 2019,https://ombudsmen.gov.ba/ Novost.aspx?newsid=1290&lang=EN. 63 BankTrack, “Tuzla 7 Coal Power Plant,” November 19, 2018, https://www.banktrack.org/project/tuzla_7_lignitefired_power_plant#_. 64 CEE Bankwatch Network, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), and Center for Ecology and Energy (CEE), Lifting the Smog: How Much Tuzla’s Public Health Would Benefit from Enforcement of Air Quality Legislation, June 2019, https://www.env-health.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Lifting-the-smog-ENG-June-24-2019. pdf. RadioSarajevo, “Ambasada SAD-a o odluci Parlamenta FBiH u vezi Bloka 7 i ulozi Kine,” March 11, 2019, https://www.radiosarajevo.ba/vijesti/bosna-i-hercegovina/ ambasada-sad-a-o-odluci-parlamenta-fbih-u-vezi-bloka-7-i-ulozi-kine/329580.

Page 7 GENERAL ELECTRIC’S COAL PLANT PROFITEERING NRDC 65 CEE Bankwatch Network, HEAL, and CEE, Lifting the Smog. 66 Magazin Zurnal Online, “AFERA - TV ŽURNAL: Vladar iz podzemlja,” YouTube, July 1, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmsynvocsLg. 67 Energy Community, “Secretariat Questions Compliance of State Guarantee for the Tuzla 7 Project with the State Aid Acquis,” March 26, 2019, https://www. energy-community.org/news/Energy-Community-News/2019/03/26.html. Bankwatch Network, “Tuzla 7 Lignite Power Plant, Bosnia and Herzegovina,” https:// bankwatch.org/project/tuzla-7-lignite-power-plant-bosnia-and-herzegovina-2 (accessed July 25, 2019).

68 “Long Phú 1 hoàn thành 76,11% khối lượng công việc,” eJune 20, 2018, (link in Vietnamese) https://petrovietnam.petrotimes.vn/du-an-nmnd-long-phu-1-hoan-thanh- 7611-khoi-luong-cong-viec-506497.html.

69 Lương Bằng, “Mỹ cấm vận nhà thầu Nga, dự án tỷ USD Việt Nam đình trệ,” VietnamNet, June 5, 2019, https://vietnamnet.vn/vn/kinh-doanh/dau-tu/nhiet-dien-ty-do- long-phu-1-nha-thau-nga-bi-my-cam-van-dung-cong-viec-547360.html. 70 Mike Ives, “The U.S. May Back a Vietnam Coal Plant. Russia Is Already Helping,” New York Times, January 26, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/ business/exim-bank-vietnam-russia-coal.html. 71 “US Sanction on Contractor Delays Long Phu 1 Thermal Power Plant,”​​​​​​​ Vietnam Investment Review, October 30, 2018, https://www.vir.com.vn/us-sanction-on- contractor-delays-long-phu-1-thermal-power-plant-63329.html. Hoàng Tú, “Nhà máy nhiệt điện Long Phú: Không làm chủ được tiến độ vì… Mỹ cấm vận Nga,” Pháp Luật Việt Nam, October 17, 2018, http://baophapluat.vn/chuyen-llam-an/nha-may-nhiet-dien-long-phu-khong-lam-chu-duoc-tien-do-vi-my-cam-van-nga-418060.html. General Electric, “GE Power in Vietnam,” https://www.ge.com/vn/b2b/power (accessed July 25, 2019). 72 BankTrack, “Long Phu 1 Coal Power Plant,” February 12, 2018, https://www.banktrack.org/project/long_phu_i#issues. 73 Bruce C. Buckheit, Smoke and Mirrors: Debunking the Doctored Numbers on Long Phu-1 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Friends of the Earth, June 2017, https://1bps6437gg8c169i0y1drtgz-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017.08.02_SmokeandMirrors-Long-Phu-Emissions-report.pdf. 74 Ibid.

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